# Report 2022-07

## News

 - [Tracking cookies found in more than half of G20 government websites](https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/06/tracking_cookies_found_in_90)
 - [A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser](https://www.wired.com/story/web-deanonymization-side-channel-attack-njit)
 - [Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage to Police Without a Warrant or Consent](https://theintercept.com/2022/07/13/amazon-ring-camera-footage-police-ed-markey)
 - [Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping]( https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/17/facebook-has-started-to-encrypt-links-to-counter-privacy-improving-url-stripping)
 - [Documents Show DHS Tracks Smartphones Across the Country](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3gmb/documents-show-dhs-tracks-smartphones-across-the-country)
 - [Remote attestation is coming back. How much freedom will it take?](https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-coming-back-how-much-freedom-will-it-take)
 - ['Orwellian' facial recognition cameras in UK stores challenged by rights group](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/orwellian-facial-recognition-cameras-uk-stores-challenged-by-rights-group-2022-07-26/)
 - [Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car?](https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2022/07/27/who-is-collecting-data-from-your-car)
 - [Dozens of Brokers Are Selling Pregnancy Data Post-Roe](https://gizmodo.com/data-brokers-selling-pregnancy-roe-v-wade-abortion-1849148426)
 - [Meta, US hospitals sued for using healthcare data to target ads](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/meta-us-hospitals-sued-for-using-healthcare-data-to-target-ads)
 - [Israel bans use of cash for purchases larger than NIS 6,000](https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/banking-and-finance/article-713354)

## Data Breaches

 - [Hacker claims to have stolen data of 1bn Chinese from police](https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/Hacker-claims-to-have-stolen-data-of-1bn-Chinese-from-police)
 - [US eye clinic suffers data breach impacting 92,000 patients](https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/us-eye-clinic-suffers-data-breach-impacting-92-000-patients)
 - [Marriott confirms another data breach after hotel got hacked](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/marriott-confirms-another-data-breach-after-hotel-got-hacked)
 - [How data on a billion people may have leaked from a Chinese police dashboard](https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/10/stolen_shanghai_police_data)
 - [1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack](https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/13/19m_patients_medical_data_exposed)
 - [More than 4,000 individuals’ medical data left exposed for 16 years](https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/more-than-4-000-individuals-medical-data-left-exposed-for-16-years)
 - [Walmart-controlled flight booking service suffers substantial data leak](https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/19/cleartrip_data_leak)
 - [911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/911-proxy-service-implodes-after-disclosing-breach)
 - [Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k](https://9to5mac.com/2022/07/22/twitter-data-breach)

## Paper/Report

 - [Measuring Web Cookies in Governmental Websites](https://dspace.networks.imdea.org/handle/20.500.12761/1577)
 - [Cache-based Targeted Deanonymization Attacks](https://leakuidatorplusteam.github.io/)
 - [Exploring the Unprecedented Privacy Risks of the Metaverse](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13176)
 - [CCTV-Exposure: An open-source system for measuring user's privacy exposure to mapped CCTV cameras based on geo-location](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02159)
